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      12 days ago

      It stops automated OCR reading the word and blocking it on more centralized social media systems.

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          11 days ago

          At a guess, that’s the version the poster had to hand, and it doesn’t really bother most people, so spending time and energy finding a different version probably wasn’t high on their agenda.

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            11 days ago

            I think thats a reasonable guess. I find having to scroll past these sorts of threads to be annoying.

            I get it, it doesn’t need to be censored. But it is censored, for whatever reason. Lemmy isn’t the only social media platform, and the internet recycles memes.

            Maybe it really trips some people up and makes it hard to understand, but I think people tend to understand what was censored without even thinking about it.

            I wouldn’t even think about these word censors at all if it wasn’t for the obligatory “you can say fuck on the internet” comments. Say fuck then, do it! Who cares, though, if someone else didn’t say fuck?